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| Pros and Cons of Platter Mass @totem395 You are looking at this upside down -the objective of a high mass platter is to make it immune to stylus drag.How heavy does it need to be - Brinkmann says 15kg minimum, Kuzma claims similar. Kuzma says stylus drag cannot be eliminated ... | |
| Record Mats In Combination With Weights @guakusThe point I made was that each turntable is different, and will yield different results. In your case you succeeded in gaining improvements from the specific mat/weight you purchased. The key is exactly what you saidI take the position that... | |
| Record Mats In Combination With Weights Before setting up the Soverign I used the Gravity One on my old table. It was no contest. MUCH better truth of timbre, greater dynamics, impressive detail, extension, just more of everything you want and none of what you don't.Hyperbole to the ext... | |
| Record Mats In Combination With Weights The purpose of a mat and weight/clamp are to dampen the record so that it does not resonate under the stylus.It is a lot more complex than that.If you have a reflex clamp or heavy weight with washer under the label, then you are coupling the recor... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above @chakster so I believe Foxtan (ebay seller in Hong Kong) asked his tech to replace the ruby ball bearings with silicone for me, after I complained about quality. I would’s refurbish EPA-100 (NEVER AGAIN)! I wouldn’t change the original ruby ball b... | |
| Maplenoll Ariadne Modification? I know the Ariadne well. One of my friends use to distribute Maplenoll TT's. The air bearing linear tracking tonearm on the Ariadne was an early design by Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology based on the ET1.The Eminent Technology ET2.5 air bearin... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above @lewm So do you agree with Mijostyn that vintage tonearms are trash (paraphrasing his actual words which can be found in quotes above.) What I’d read about the EPA100 was that the ruby bearjngs are superb but fragile and thus in some cases have no... | |
| Tonearm musings Personally if you like the current sound why not get a Graham Phantom Supreme - definitely an upgrade.Alternately the best value for money arm on the market in my view is the Kuzma 4Point9 - reasonable price and superb performance.With the oracle ... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please @fjn04 The Kuzma arms are medium mass, aren’t they. Mine is 13 grams, and I thought that was true with the 4 Point 11". No - the 4Point11 effective mass is 18g. | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above @chaksterI wouldn’t even touch the RUBY BALL bearings on Technics EPA-100, especially on EPA-100 mkII. There are people who are always ready "to sell you an improvement", someone in his garage pretending to have better knowledge than Matsushita Ja... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above The FR tonearms even also have counterweights placed so that the center of mass is at the LP surface, a good idea No they don't, not on the FR64S.I doubt that any modern tonearms have pivot bearings as low in friction as those used in the Technics... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please Congratulations on your new TT.I’ve installed a Kuzma CAR50 MC on a 4Point11 which had a Van den hul Colibri on it. The Kuzma is actually a very good cartridge - up there with the Colibri - I would say more resolving than a Koetsu Rosewood, unless... | |
| Next TT Brinkmann Balance is the best built, and sounding of the 3 TT's - by far.It's a lifetime legacy product. | |
| Pros and Cons of Platter Mass It is becoming more common for manufacturers to use a magnetic thrust mechanism. No ball and no thrust pad.And it is a stupid idea - you cannot accurately measure the groove when the platter is not grounded or referenced to a fixed point relative ... | |
| Pros and Cons of Platter Mass The best direct drive motors do not require as much mass as the best belt drives.No.If you look at the Technics SP10 series - the most powerful SP10mk3 has a mucher higher platter mass (25lb ) relative to the weeker motored mk2. Similarly with the... |